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" It makes no difference how many friends I have and what content I can find in conversing with each, if there be one to whom I am not equal. If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly. "
Essays - Page 166
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 303 pages
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 5

1909 - 540 pages
...one to whom I am not equal. If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, instantly the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly. I should hate...made my other friends my asylum. The valiant warrior tamoused for fight, After a hundred victories, once foiled, Is from the book of honor razed quite And...
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Essays and English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 508 pages
...one to whom I am not equal. If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, instantly the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly. I should hate...made my other friends my asylum. The valiant warrior famonsed for fight. After a hundred victories, once foiled. Is from the book of honor razed quite And...
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Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...one to whom I am not equal. If I have shrunk unequal from one contest instantly, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly. I should hate myself, if then I made my othei friends my asylum. ' ' The valiant warrior f amoused for fight, After a hundred victories, once...
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The World's Progress: With Illustrative Texts from Masterpieces of ..., Part 10

Delphian Society - 1911 - 578 pages
...parties are relieved by solitude. equal. If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly. I should hate...he toiled." Our impatience is thus sharply rebuked. Bash fulness and apathy are a tough husk in which a delicate organization is protected from premature...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets: Based Upon Bohn ...

Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 pages
...The painful warrior, famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foiled, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled. 5590 Shaks. : Sonnet xxv. WASHINGTON. Washington's a watchword such as ne'er Shall sink while there's...
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Shakspere and Sir Walter Ralegh: Including Also Several Essays Previously ...

Henry Pemberton, Mrs. Susan Lovering Pemberton - 1914 - 278 pages
...on the same Sonnet : The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foil'd, Is from the book of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd. If these lines are not subjective and personal, why should " Shakespeare " have inserted them?...
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Shakspere and Sir Walter Ralegh: Including Also Several Essays Previously ...

Henry Pemberton, Mrs. Susan Lovering Pemberton - 1914 - 278 pages
...in their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foil'd, Is from the book of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd. Sonnet XXV. When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state,...
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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...equal. If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and 30 cowardly. I should hate myself, if then I made my...Bashfulness and apathy are a tough husk in which a delicate organiSzation is protected from premature ripening. It would be lost if it knew itself before any of...
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Tell it in Gath

Joseph A. Osgoode - 1918 - 232 pages
...the shallowness of popular applause:— "The painful warrior, famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foiled, Is from the book of honor razed...quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled." At Shiloh Johnston's design was foiled, not by the enemy, but by death, and Beauregard, whom Northern...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 pages
...in their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foil'd, y, but she aim'd not at glory, no lover of glory she; Give her the glory of toil'd : Then happy I, that love and am beloved Where I may not remove nor be removed. When, in disgrace...
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